The choir organiser, Sammy Hurden, has her own website which mentions working on Let England Shake: http://sammyhurden.com/page5.htm, and so she did - she's credited with arrangements and vocals on 'The Colour of the Earth', so Polly kept some connection with her. Very interesting!

The choir organiser, Sammy Hurden, has her own website which mentions working on Let England Shake: http://sammyhurden.com/page5.htm, and so she did - she's credited with arrangements and vocals on 'The Colour of the Earth', so Polly kept some connection with her. Very interesting!

actually I got the picture form the pj facebook group but they didn't give any more info so thanks for the link!

actually I got the picture form the pj facebook group but they didn't give any more info so thanks for the link!

Ah, I should check that more. In that case glad to be able to contribute!

One of the intriguing aspects of this relates to the PJ-and-feminism debate we sometimes have. Despite all Polly's publicly-recorded comments about never having felt disadvantaged by being female, not really identifying with women, not sympathising with feminism, and not exactly going out of her way to include women in what she does, here she is, early on in her career, taking part in an overtly feminist music project. I wonder how the two relate to each other.

Kate Garrett (R.I.P. 1972 - 2009) her musical career started in a school band with P.J. Harvey, then she was in the Mystics, who did the whole major label, touring the States thing. Then she had her own band - the KGB - who managed a busy international gig schedule. She wrote twilight songs blending otherworldy acoustics with left-field experimentalism. She was a consumate musician. She was also in blue kite.